2018-05-14 14:44 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> > For ByteArray, I didn't check recently in Pharo, but I know that it's
> quite a mess in Squeak because some methods are in Alien, other in FFI,
> other in base Squeak...
> > IMO all methods should be in core Squeak/Pharo because of general usage
> (like decoding binary data).
> >
> I want to move the methods from FFI to the base since years… I was told
> that this is impossible to ever happen because it is not important to do
> changes like that.
>
Marcus
>
Hi Marcus,
we all know that those un-important and not-so-much-rewarding changes makes
a big difference at the end.
like commenting classes, classifying methods, deprecating duplicates,
reducing package inter-dependencies, etc...
I thought that the defenders of statu quo had two reasons in mind:
- the will to keep a FFI-less (locked-in) image
- the fear to loose backward compatibility
But's it the past, now you are free :)
